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c) The facial or external maxillary artery, Art. maxillaris externa, 

 passes forwards to the face, ascends at the angle of the mouth to the side of the nose 

 and terminates as angular artery, Art. angularis, which anastomoses with the 

 ophthalmic artery from the internal carotid. Its branches are: the submental, 

 Art. submentalis; the ascending palatine, Art. palatina ascendens s. pharyngo- 

 palatina, which lies at the side of the pharynx and supplies the MM. stylo- 

 glossus and stylo-pharyngeus, the soft palate and the mucous membrane of the 

 pharynx; the tonsillar artery, Art. tonsillaris, to the side of the pharynx and 

 the tonsil ; the submaxillary; muscular branches to the internal pterygoid, 

 masseter and buccinator muscles; the inferior labial; the superior and 

 inferior coronary, Art. coronaria labii superioris et inferioris, which run 

 along the edges of the lips and anastomose with the corresponding arteries of 

 the opposite side. From the upper arch arises the Art. septi moMis nasi. 



